An 8-Year-Old Boy Was YouTube's Highest Earner In 2019
Ryan Kaji has been named YouTube's highest earner for the second year running. The eight-year-old raked in a cool $26 million this year.
As the decade comes to a close, many of us will be reflecting on the last ten years and thinking about what has changed. One of the biggest changes for society as a whole has been the way in which we consume media. The era of physical media has long been left in the past and most of us now stream our music, movies, and TV shows.
There are plenty of headlines detailing how there's now less money to be made for the artists and the actors thanks to the switch to streaming. However, Forbes' list of the highest earners on YouTube in 2019 would beg to differ. Not only is there literally millions of dollars to be made, but the door to those millions is now open to a lot more people.
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That is demonstrated perfectly by the person at the top of that list. Ryan Kaji, the eight-year-old star of YouTube channel Ryan's World. Kaji made a cool $26 million this year, making him the highest-paid YouTuber for the second year in a row. He even bettered his 2018 total by another $2 million, plus has struck up deals for shows with Nickolodeon and Hulu.
Kaji isn't the only person to have killed it on YouTube this year. A group of YouTubers collectively known as Dude Perfect also managed to break the $20 million mark for their videos during which they attempt to break Guinness World Records. There was someone even younger than Kaji to make 2019's top ten, though. That honor goes to Anastasia Radzinskaya who is just five years old.
Radzinskaya's parents post videos of the little one receiving treatment for cerebral palsy. Those clips have clearly warmed the hearts and garnered the attention of people around the world as Radzinskaya's channels collectively have more than 100 million subscribers. Perhaps she will be able to knock Kaji from YouTube's high-earning top spot in 2020. She will need to build on the $18 million she made this year in order to do that, though.
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